Retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the last glacial termination

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-202

  MacKintosh, Andrew ^a   Golledge, Nicholas ^a   Domack, Eugene ^b   Dunbar, Robert ^c   Leventer, Amy ^d   White, Duanne ^e   Pollard, David ^f   Deconto, Robert ^g   Fink, David ^h   Zwartz, Dan ^a   Gore, Damian ^e   Lavoie, Caroline ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^h AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER RETREAT; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; MELTWATER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79952149361     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1061     Document Type: Article

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